Press release: “Nour Merheb asks for the immediate release of the 3 Facebookers and calls upon the free Lebanese citizens to surrender themselves to judge Mirza if they were not released”

بيان صحفي عن معتقلي الفايسبوك الثلاثة في ملف بي دي أف

Press Release on the 3 Facebookers English

29/6/2010, The Human Rights activist Nour Merheb, declared his condemnation to the Human Rights violation practiced by the Public Prosecutor in Lebanon, Judge Saaid Mirza, following the latter’s decision to arrest three people on charges related to insulting the president of the Lebanese republic over the Facebook and on the Internet. Nour explained: “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and especially Article 19 ensures everyone the right to freedom of opinion and expression through any media”

He added: “I call on all the free Lebanese to take a stand and defend their natural and constitutional freedoms and rights with the detainees of freedom of opinion and expression, the three young men, Naim George Hanna, Antoine Yousef Ramya, and Chebel Rajeh Kassab”.

Nour also invited the President of the Republic of Lebanon “to immediately intervene and declare that he refuses This Human Rights and constitutional violation especially that he is supposed to be the first protector of the constitution.”

In case the three detainees were not released, Nour says: ”I call upon all Lebanese citizens to go to the office of the Judge Mirza, insult the president and ask for their arrest until their prisons are filled, and I announce that if the investigating judge’s decision was not to release Naim, Antoine and Chebel I will go and surrender myself to Mirza and ask to be imprisoned same as they are!”

Nour invites the media and the public to visit the website www.case2769.org for more information.

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